Improvement in farm-gates



HENRY P. H'ASKIN, OF ROSGOE, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 113,657, dated April 11, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GI\TES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making of the lame.

To all whom tt may concern Be it known that I, HENRY P. HAsKIN, of Roscoe, of Winnebago county, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and vuseful Improvements in the Construction and Manner of Operating Farm-Gates; and I hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawing are suicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertaius to make and use my said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment.

The nature of my invention and improvements consists in the construction' and arrangement oi' a double gate, intended to be operated from the carriage or saddle by means ofthe peculiar mechanism shown in the drawing herewith, in which- Figure l is a perspective view thereof;

Figure 2 is a top view or vertical section of the same with the cap B removed; and

Figure 3 is a similar view showingtheposition oi' the gates when open, and exhibiting the mechanism by which they are operated.

Similar letters of reference indicate'corresponding parts.

In the drawing-4- A A B represent the frame of the gate-way.

C O are the gates, the heel-posts of the frame thereof heilig pivoted at the top and bottom, and hung or hinged by suitable bearings to the posts A A so as -to rotate frecl y on their axis, as shown.

E E are posts set at suitable distance from the gate-way at either approach thereto, to which are pivoted, at an angle, the oscillating levers c e, provded with rods, chains, or Wires f f, for the purpose The said right-hand gate is provided with a pivoted L- shaped latch, H, the vertical end of which is connected by a rod or wire, h, to the lower angle of the chain above mentioned.

K K are short' centrally-placed posts for securing the gates firmly in position when closed, and D is a bar or rod,.snitably pivoted to the arms of the cranks d d, provided or placed at the top end of the heelpostV of each gate, as shown-thus, when the gates are operated, producing a rotary motion-of the left-hand gate, reciprocating with but transverse to the righthand gate;

The gates are operated' by carrying forward'the oscillating lever e by the handle at the front approach to the gate, when the gates will open to the right and left freely without noise, and the same from either approach, and are closed by reverse action at either of the aforesaid oscillating levers, the latch H being irst disengaged by tension of the rod h, effected by the rods f f, actuated by the said oscillating levers e c, as shown.

It will be seen that this gate cannot be forced open.

by stock, and the effect of the severest gale of wind yis neutralized by the transverse rotating of the gates.

wWhat I claim as my invention and improvements, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. lhe connecting-bar D and cranks d fl, for the purpose of opening and closing the gates in opposite directions, as shown and described.

2. 'Ihe arrangement Aof the oscillating levers e e, transverse rods f f, and crank-lever G, provided with the aforementioned chain, rod h, and latch H, as and for the purpose set forth. v

HENRY P. HASKIN.

Witnesses R. TA'r'rEnsHALL, G. E,.HAWLEY. 

